Long Attempt Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
attempt, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
attempt, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
attempt, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
The Only Northern Northern StarAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
attempt, africa,
Form:
Ode
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
attempt, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
attempt, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
attempt, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
attempt, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
attempt, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
attempt, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style~ Have Faith ~
( Egg Timer )
~O~
Lord wants you live right
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Lord wants you live right
Just Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To...
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Categories:
attempt, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
attempt, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
attempt, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
attempt, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style~ With The Lord ~
( Magic 9 )
~O~
With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
He picks me up for...
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Categories:
attempt, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
attempt, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
attempt, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
attempt, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy ClimatesIn 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
attempt, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
attempt, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 19
“It is time,” he said as he turned back to the others. “Andghul, you and DynDoeth, make your way as closely and quietly as you can toward the...
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Categories:
attempt, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 74“There,” Lumi said suddenly and Joulupukki looked through the trees, seeing a small house.
“Wait here said Joulupukki, I'll be right back.”
He made his way to the house and called...
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Categories:
attempt, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
attempt, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 42Rian sat puzzling in his suite in the Keep. His thoughts in disarray, jumping from one concern to another without any logical order. He sat before a desk that once was...
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Categories:
attempt, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
attempt, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme